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Justices Brennan and Marshall are determined not to give Reagan that opportunity. "They will have to be carried out," says a former Brennan clerk, who adds that both of the old liberals are in reasonably good health. Powell, 78, and Blackmun, 77, are said to be a bit weary, yet neither has given any indication that he is ready to retire. Some court watchers say the elderly Justices are afraid the next Reagan appointee will have Scalia's ideological bent without his judicial skills and acumen. Though A.E.I.'s Fein contends that the Justices should be reassured that the White...
...instance, whose opinion striking down explicit quotas but permitting race to be a "factor" in university admissions achieved the court's Solomonic compromise in the famed 1978 affirmativeaction case Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke. Justice John Paul Stevens is a thoroughly unpredictable maverick, and Justice Harry Blackmun, once derided as Burger's "Minnesota Twin," is now often allied with the court's liberal duo, Brennan and Marshall...
...approved, Scalia would join two other Harvard Law School graduates on the Court, Associate Justices Harry A. Blackmun '29 and William J. Brennan Jr., who graduated from the law school in '32 and '31, respectively. William H. Rehnquist, Reagan's nominee to replace Burger as Chief Justice, received a Masters degree from Harvard...
...begun to split from her usual allies, Chief Justice Warren Burger and William Rehnquist, and has sometimes cast the decisive vote that yields a liberal result. Says Michael McDonald, general counsel of the conservative American Legal Foundation: "I wonder if she is traveling the route blazed by Justice Blackmun." Harry Blackmun, who moved from a close identification with the Chief Justice to join the court's shifting centrists, has also noted O'Connor's passage. "In certain areas," he told a meeting of federal judges last summer, "she is becoming somewhat independent and her own woman...
Previous holders of the fellowship include former President Gerald Ford, former Secetary of State Dean Rusk, former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and authors John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, William Styron, John Updike '54, Kurt Vonnegut and Robert Penn Warren...